Talk:Civil law

Quotes in regards to the Civil Law:

"If we search out the origins of Roman Law, we must study Babylon..." Sir Frederic Pollack and Frederic William Maitland, The History of the English Law Before the Time of Edward I, page 561, Cambridge Univ. Press 1968.

"The King of Babylon [Nimrod] built a bridge across the Euphrates River and gave himself the title of the great bridge builder. The title was transferred, centuries later, to a king of Asia minor [Attalus of Pergamos], was taken by the Caesars, and finally fell to the popes who boast in it today, Pontifex Maximus." Donald Grey Barnhouse, The Invisible War, page 194,Zondervan 1965.

"In the civil law world, the movement toward the extremes of the inquisitorial model was impelled by the revival of Roman Law. The influence of canonic procedure, and, most important, the rise of statism...the prince as the personification of the state had the power to punish and pardon unrestricted by rules..." John Henry Merryman, The Civil Law Tradition, 2nd Ed. 1985.

"The pry bar of Roman Law found its fulcrum on the hill of the Vatican." Donald Grey Barnhouse, The Invisible War, page 239-240, Zondervan 1965.

"The study of canon law came to be joined with the study of civil law in the Italian Universities and a degree conferred on a student who had completed a full course of study was Juris Utri que Doctor or Doctor of Both Laws, referring to the civil law and the canon law (the J.U.D. is still granted in some universities in the civil law world). Because the two were studied together in the Italian Universities, there was a tendency for them to influence each other...this Roman civil law-canon law jus commune was the generally applicable law of Europe." John Henry Merryman, The Civil Law Tradition, 2nd Ed. 1985.

"Civil law stems from Babylon and is inquisitorial, encouraging and requiring the state's violation of one's freedom of conscience. This ever-present trait arises from the Babylonian system's dependence upon the priest's judicial power to examine its subjects in the Babylonian deity's name. In theory, the Babylonian deity, using various names worldwide and personified in the state or its demagogue, invested his priests with the power to examine the consciences of devotees by whatever means necessary, granting absolution or condemnation according to their imperious pleasure. By entrusting themselves to a totalitarian state, the Babylonian settlers established statism." Brent Allan Winters, Excellence of the Common Law, Compared and Contrasted with Civil Law in Light of History, Nature and Scripture, Page 63, 2008.

"The XII Tables' chief provision stated that whatever the majority vote of the people ordained in the last instance is the law; by this provision, the people deemed their simple majority to be sovereign: the voice from which no appeal was allowed. The Roman people, therefore, replaced their Babylonian gods with a majority of their number. Moreover, since the majority's voice was the equivalent to supreme deity, the majority faction became, in effect, Rome's god, able to get its cravings without fear of the minority's appeal to any higher power. Any who were willing, the majority allowed to join their number and enjoy the spoils of the majority's goals: state favor and government largess through plunder of the minority. In time, the leaven of majority rule, unlimited by law and individual rights, played itself out in inevitable anarchy and confusion, moving the now bewildered and anxious Romans to pine for and receive an all-powerful imperator to commandeer them and bring stability, albeit only if temporary." Brent Allan Winters, Excellence of the Common Law, Compared and Contrasted with Civil Law in Light of History, Nature and Scripture, Page 107-108, 2008.

"Civil law, therefore, is an urban law tailored to a particular city (Rome), held forth to be the incarnation of the timeless principles of reason, and all that is needed to judge man's behavior at all times and in all places. Pope Gregory VII's claim to rule the world from Rome was in furtherance of his attempt to imitate Rome's emperors. Rome was a city that ruled her empire from Rome, by Romans. Roman was not even a country that ruled an empire, such as did England in ruling the British Empire. Suckled on Babylonian religion, the civil-law tradition matured in Roman power, where emperors executed Rome's will by sheer might - not always because she was right. Cities have been largely cultures of consumption or raw materials; rural areas, on the other hand, have been largely cultures of production or raw materials. Herein lies an observation from the scattering that occured at Babylon: in the false religion of human will, Babylon conceived civil law and government, which then became the law of the city of Rome, was compiled as Justinian's Code, and is now received as the law of many nations." Brent Allan Winters, Excellence of the Common Law, Compared and Contrasted with Civil Law in Light of History, Nature and Scripture, Page 141, 2008.Liberty farms iowa (talk) 16:08, 9 February 2014 (MST)